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Weather & Climate

ぬくぬく

nuku-nuku

Snugly warm and cozy

A deeply comfortable warmth, like being wrapped in a blanket or sitting by a heater. Suggests being pampered by warmth.

💡Staying in a heated room on a snowy day — 'I was nuku-nuku under the kotatsu all afternoon.'

Example

こたつの中でぬくぬくしている。

I'm staying nuku-nuku inside the kotatsu.

Quiz yourself

While it snowed outside, I stayed ___ under the kotatsu.

外は雪なのに、こたつの中で○○していた。

winterhomeblanketcomfortrelaxing
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